Today is the 75th anniversary date of the officially repealed of prohibition in America with the ratification of the 21st Amendment to the Constitution. On December 5, 1933, a 3/4 majority of states needed to ratify the 21st Amendment was reached when Utah adopted the 21st Amendment. It not only officially ended national Prohibition which …
The legal drinking age for countries worldwide varies drastically from, completely banning alcohol (Saudi Arabia, Sudan, etc.) or from no age limit to the maximum age of 21. There are only a handful of countries that have the limit set at 21 (Indonesia, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, Kiribati, in Paraguay it’s 21 in …
April 6, 1933. Midnight was approaching. A crowd of perhaps 25,000 milled around the Anheuser-Busch brewery on Pestalozzi Street. Inside the lobby of the Bevo packaging plant, August A. “Gussie” Busch Jr., grandson of the brewery’s patriarch, stepped up to a KMOX microphone. “April the seventh is here, and it is a real occasion for …
A group of Wisconsin brewers blasted open barrels of beer on the docks of the Milwaukee River on Tuesday in the Brew City’s version of the Boston Tea Party. Their sticky statement was in protest of a little-publicized state Senate bill that they said would create complications for startup breweries. The big brew-ha is over …